Innovation Development Intern Review

A really great first insight into the professional world. The jobs that I had to do had a good range and everyone was really friendly.

No one took me for granted and there was always many 'thank you's for the work I did.

My manager was amazing! We had weekly catch up sessions on my previous week and plans for the coming week, while I was always welcome to grab her or email her inbetween. She supported as I needed on my individual projects and was really helpful with improving my CV and helping with some of my applications for Grad Schemes.

Mostly there was a really great balance as I was either supporting team projects or working on multiple own projects so there was always plenty to do. Towards the end of the internship I was really busy trying to wrap everything up, but that was great because I felt I got a lot out of the experience.

It varied, some tasks were pretty basic but the kind of smaller tasks that did need to be done, while other tasks, particularly those for my individual projects required more responsibility.

I've found that I have a lot more to talk about in my applications now, from a variety of different aspects of the internship. I'm definitely really pleased with how much I've gotten out of the experience and have been able to see improvements in the skills that I went in wanting to develop.

Everyone was really friendly, across the whole CRUK staff everyone seemed pretty relaxed, but my team in particular were always having a laugh. Even during a really intense work period when everyone in the team would be working till really late and looking pretty stressed, they were still able to have a laugh with each other more than I would have expected.

it was good, the scheme organiser kept it all together pretty well and there were various review process at set points throughout the internship to make sure everything was on track.

There were mentoring schemes available that you could take advantage of, we were given packs to keep a record of competencies we built each week and to go over this with our manager. We also had a day dedicated to CVs, cover letters and interviews where we went over different examples etc, as well as a 1:1 chat with someone from HR about our cv etc.

I would have liked to stay on but no entry level positions within my team so that was not possible.

There was a good intern culture with plenty of socialising during the day and lots of people went out for drinks etc after work too. Colleagues were also really friendly and we did go out after work occasionally.

Central London is not cheap! But certainly for things like lunch, if you knew where to go then you could definitely find cheap, but good options. Would particularly recommend trips down chapel market down the road.